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• Fifth lawsuit filed over legionella outbreak at Mount Carmel Grove City

  09-07-2019 23:33
  
  COLUMBUS (WBNS) – A fifth lawsuit has been filed against Mount Carmel Grove City following an outbreak of legionella bacteria that is being attributed to the death of one patient and sickened more than a dozen people.The latest lawsuit filed in Franklin County Tuesday, alleges that on or about May 13, 2019, Ronald Biegler was admitted to Mount Carmel Grove City for several days for testing.“After being released, he became seriously ill multiple symptoms, including a high fever, sever
  
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• Pentagon spent $1.2 million for Trump's July 4 "Salute to America"

  09-07-2019 23:21
  
  President Trump's "Salute to America" Fourth of July celebration cost the Department of Defense $1.2 million, the Pentagon told CBS News on Tuesday.That figure does not represent the full cost of the event to taxpayers, but it does include the cost of flying hours and transportation for tanks and fighting vehicle platforms. Funding for the demonstrations, a Pentagon spokesman says, came from the services' training budgets for flying hours, and additional funds were used for the transportation of
  
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• Powell police looking for missing 17-year-old boy

  09-07-2019 22:24
  
  POWELL, Ohio – Police in Powell are looking for a missing 17-year-old boy.Police said Dallas Matvey was last seen at his home in Powell on July 7 and a report was filed on July 9.He has brown eyes, black hair, and he wears glasses.Anyone with information is asked to call Powell police at 614-885-3374.
  
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• Columbus bicyclist that got trapped under tree wants to inspire others

  09-07-2019 22:21
  Last week, on Tuesday, David Humeston was riding his bike home from work in an alley near East Moler Street.He said he was about halfway when it started to downpour and the wind picked up.The last thing he remembers is looking over his left shoulder and seeing a massive tree falling.He's slowly healing from five spinal fractures, a broken nose, broken cheekbone, four broken ribs with one of them piercing and collapsing his lung.Luckily, his neighbor heard his scream for help and immediately ran
  
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• "Old Fellas" offer free advice to passersby at Gahanna market

  09-07-2019 22:01
  GAHANNA, Ohio - If you've ever thought good help is hard to find, maybe, just maybe you're looking in the wrong place.At a farmer's market in Gahanna, there's a tent. Under that tent is all the laughter, help and answers you never knew you needed."Let the old dog teach him the new tricks," Wib Kindler said.Life lessons from those who have lived it.The group, The Old Fellas Coffee Club, offers advice (admittedly bad advice) and no topic is off limits."Some people may come by and say 'should I get
  
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• Man charged with murder after woman found dead in shallow grave at Alum Creek State Park

  09-07-2019 21:50
  The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office said an arrest has been made after a woman was found dead in a shallow grave at Alum Creek State Park last week.Twenty-four-year-old John David Choe Bartholomew has been charged with murder, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse.An officer with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources found what appeared to be a shallow grave near the pull-off area of the park on July 4.The woman was identified as 28-year-old Brittany D. McDowell. The cause of d
  
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• New Ohio State Fair operator not bringing ride made by Fire Ball company

  09-07-2019 21:00
  
  Talley Amusement is replacing Amusements of America at this year's Ohio State Fair.It's the first time the fair has changed the amusement ride provider in 26 years. To view a full release on the change from the fair, click here.The change came after the July 26, 2017 accident when the Fire Ball ride broke apart with a full load of passengers on board killing 18-year-old Tyler Jarrell and injuring seven others.Talley Amusements touts itself as operating 50 rides including the KMG Beast. KMG is th
  
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• More people watched the Women's World Cup final than the 2018 men's final

  09-07-2019 20:45
  
  The U.S. Women's National Team had more than one victory after beating Netherlands 2-0 on Sunday and becoming the 2019 World Cup champions. According to Fox Sports, the American audience for the Women's World Cup final was 20 percent higher than the 2018 men's final.The U.S. women's team has won four world titles — more than any women's soccer team in the world. Their success stands in stark contrast to the U.S. Men's National Team, which failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, leaving A
  
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• In U.S. 1st, baby born at Cleveland Clinic from dead donor's transplanted womb

  09-07-2019 19:04
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Clinic says it has delivered the first baby in North America after a womb transplant from a dead donor.Uterine transplants have enabled more than a dozen women to give birth, usually with wombs donated from a living donor such as a friend or relative. In December, doctors in Brazil reported the world's first birth using a deceased donor's womb.These transplants were pioneered by a Swedish doctor who did the first successful one five years ago.The Cleveland ho
  
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• Ohio State Board of Trustees approve proposal to raise in-state tuition for incoming freshmen by 3.3%

  09-07-2019 19:00
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State University Board of Trustees have approved a proposal that will increase tuition and fees for incoming freshmen from Ohio by 3.3%.The university said the increase equates to a $358 charge from last year.Additionally, the new rate will be then frozen for four years for those students as part of the university’s tuition guarantee.The university said the tuition guarantees provides students with the predictability about college costs by locking in-state t
  
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• In-state tuition for incoming freshmen at Ohio State would rise 3.3% under proposal

  09-07-2019 19:00
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State University will increase tuition and fees for incoming freshmen from Ohio by 3.3% under a new proposal being presented to the Board of Trustees on Wednesday.The university said the increase equates to a $358 charge from last year.Additionally, the new rate will be then frozen for four years for those students as part of the university’s tuition guarantee.The university said the tuition guarantees provides students with the predictability about college
  
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• 4 bodies found in Cleveland, 2 children among the victims

  09-07-2019 18:40
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Police investigating the shooting death of a man in a vacant lot in Cleveland say they also found the bodies of a woman and two children in a nearby house.Authorities aren't saying how the three found inside the house Tuesday died, but they did say the four deaths are connected.Cleveland's police chief says investigators are looking for several people of interest and that they are following multiple leads in the shooting on the city's east side.Police Chief Calvin Williams
  
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• City Council Summer Splash Series

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• Federal court rules that Trump can't block critics on Twitter

  09-07-2019 17:53
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump can't ban critics from his Twitter account, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying the First Amendment calls for more speech, rather than less, on matters of public concern.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a lower court judge who said Trump violates the Constitution when he blocks critics."The irony in all of this is that we write at a time in the history of this nation when the conduct of our government and its officia
  
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• Slayer's farewell tour to stop in Columbus this November

  09-07-2019 16:52
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Slayer - Tom Araya/ bass and vocals, Kerry King/guitars, Gary Holt/ guitars, and Paul Bostaph/ drums - will set off on "The Final Campaign" in November, the seventh and final leg of its farewell world tour.Accompanying Slayer for this last ride are Primus, Ministry and Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals performing a vulgar display of Pantera.The tour stops at Nationwide Arena in Columbus on Tuesday, November 12.Tickets go on sale Friday, July 12 at 10 a.m. at the Big Lots Box
  
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• Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot dies at 89

  09-07-2019 16:29
  
  DALLAS (AP) — H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice ran for president as a third-party candidate, has died. He was 89.Perot, whose 19% of the vote in 1992 stands among the best showings by an independent candidate in the past century, died early Tuesday at his home in Dallas surrounded by his devoted family, family spokesman James Fuller said.As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the ba
  
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• Franklin County coroner's office warns of recent spike in overdose deaths

  09-07-2019 16:26
  
  FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio - The Franklin County coroner said there has been a recent spike in deaths caused by an overdose.Between 9:02 a.m. and 9:48 p.m. on July 8 there were six apparent overdose deaths, according to the coroner's office.The coroner's office said the overdoses happened in the following zipcodes: 43224, 43123, 43228, 43222, 43214, and 43229.That total is included in a report of nine overdose deaths from July 6 through July 8.The toxicology team at the coroner's office is testing to
  
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• Dallas unveils memorial to police officers killed in 2016

  09-07-2019 13:27
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Officials have unveiled a monument to five police officers killed in a sniper attack in downtown Dallas.The sculpture showing the faces of the fallen officers was revealed in front of police headquarters Monday, three years and a day after a U.S. Army veteran opened fire on a peaceful protest.Micah Johnson killed four Dallas police and one transit officer before authorities killed him using a robot-delivered bomb. The July 7, 2016, shooting is considered the deadliest day for
  
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• Ohio Soldier killed in Korean War to be returned home for burial

  09-07-2019 12:53
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio soldier reported missing in action in the Korean War and later identified through DNA is returning home.Eighteen-year-old Roger Woods was reported missing in action after fighting in the vicinity of Kochang, Republic of Korea, on July 29, 1950. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said the U.S. Army later issued a "presumptive finding of death" for Pfc. Woods.Remains found in a grave in South Korea and sent to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawa
  
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• Microsoft strikes next deal to extend broadband in Ohio and 2 other states

  09-07-2019 12:44
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Microsoft Corp. and an Ohio-based provider of telecommunications services announced an agreement Tuesday to extend broadband internet access to underserved rural areas of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois over the next three years.The deal between Microsoft and Lima-based Watch Communications aims to make reliable high-speed internet available to another 815,000 people throughout the region. That includes 288,000 of the roughly 1 million Ohioans who federal figures show are
  
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• Ex-officer admits to sexually abusing kids in youth program

  09-07-2019 12:42
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky police officer has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing two minors in the Louisville department's now defunct youth program.The Courier Journal reports Kenneth Betts pleaded guilty in state court Monday to third-degree sodomy and admitted to sexually abusing the minors while he worked as a program adviser.His plea marked the end of the second criminal case stemming from sexual abuse in the program. He was sentenced in federal
  
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• Woman admits to killing husband with dagger during foreplay

  09-07-2019 12:36
  
  HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has admitted to fatally stabbing her husband in the back with a 14-inch decorative dagger while the two were roughhousing as a part of sexual foreplay.The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports 49-year-old Jennifer Lynn Via was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the 2017 death of Thomas Via, who was stabbed in the heart. Via's sentence may be reduced at a hearing next month.Via was initially charged with first-deg
  
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• Latest 'Obamacare' court battle plays out in New Orleans

  09-07-2019 11:52
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The fate of former President Barack Obama's signature health care law, and its coverage and insurance protections for millions of Americans, is again being argued before a panel of judges — this time a federal appeals court in New Orleans.At issue in a hearing scheduled Tuesday by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is whether Congress effectively rendered it unconstitutional in 2017 when it zeroed out the tax imposed on those who chose not
  
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• 'Sober Curious' push brings more alcohol-free options to central Ohio

  09-07-2019 11:19
  COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Food and wine experts are calling attention to a new beverage movement that combines all the savory flavors of cocktails but contains no alcohol. Trendy locations throughout Columbus now include "zero-proof" or "alcohol-free" sections on menus."There are many reasons people come in wanting a zero-proof drink. Sometimes it is a customer on a business trip who wants to keep her wits about her, sometimes it is a person who doesn't like the flavor of alcohol or a host of other reas
  
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• Second victim dies after SUV goes into Columbus pond

  09-07-2019 03:27
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man and an 11-year-old have died and two other children were hospitalized after a car holding five people entered a Columbus pond Saturday afternoon.According to Columbus police, a 39-year-old woman was attempting to park a Toyota Highlander when she lost control and drove into the pond on Shore Boulevard, just north of Kingsland Avenue at the Hartford on The Lake apartment complex.Deputy Chief Shawn Koser said bystanders heard calls for help just after 12:15 p.m. and ca
  
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• Pelosi says Trump wants to 'make America white again' with census question

  09-07-2019 02:58
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump wants to add a citizenship question to next year's Census because he wants to "make America white again."The California Democrat says the administration is battling in federal court to insert the question because it would have a chilling effect on who responds. Census Bureau experts and critics of the question say it would discourage people in the U.S. illegally from responding, including large numbers of migrants from Central America.Pelosi
  
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• FEMA opens disaster center to help families impacted by Memorial Day tornadoes

  09-07-2019 00:25
  If you were hit by the tornadoes and flooding in late May you could get a little extra help in applying for help from the government.FEMA has set up a Disaster Recovery Center in Circleville. The purpose of it is to help storm survivors fully understand what benefits are available to them.“It’s a great opportunity to really get a good understanding of what the options are for you by just meeting people face-to-face. There’s something about that in-person interaction.” Say
  
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